DBG8492
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- 1986 Marine Trader 36 Sundeck
i didn't pay attention if there are screws on the outside. will check later. how to test if the holes are clogged?
The screws on the outside of mine were hidden by rubber covers. They'd probably never been removed and to me, looked like part of the window construction. I didn't notice they were removable until I started poking and prying at things with a screwdriver to try to figure out how to remove the window.
Pics below show the whole window first and then the rubber cover. It's the one on the outside edge - nowhere near the glass. This one in particular was a permanent window under the sundeck area and we were removing it because we needed to install a window unit there while on the hard. It wasn't leaking.
Also, I took another look at my sliding windows in the cabin and the drains look identical to yours. There are two parts to them. The outside edge is a "gutter" outside the tracks that hold the glass. This has what yours looks like - cutouts about an inch wide into the aluminum. The inside edge - which is part of the actual window track - has one-inch slots in the aluminum that I suppose should feed the water that gets in the tracks out to the gutter, where it will drain through the cutouts.
When I eventually pull the first one to fix the plywood under it, I plan to figure out the best way to fix it so that once re-bedded, it will drain with minimum maintenance. It may be that the original design was best and that the fault lies in some action performed by one of the previous owners - like the makeshift screens that were on one of them... I don't know, but I plan to figure it out.